“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” Henry Ford.           Hello, young Padawan     Since you seem to like tourism in Michigan, I continue then for my greatest pleasure as well.   Learning can be reading a book, a classroom, but the…

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          “If one is not sensitive, one is never sublime”. Voltaire, letter to M. de la Harpe – August 11, 1766             Hello, young Padawan   Who told you that in the United States, everything was overrated, standardized, and boring? Those who have only been to the big cities, no doubt, but even there, you just have to get out of…

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            “Swallow flying high; the weather will be alright, swallow flying low, soon the rain will flow.” Anonymous quote, no doubt making a philosophical parallel with Twitter, lol.             Hello, young Padawan     A cute visit to an eco-solidarity garden in Michigan, more precisely in the pretty city of Detroit, that’s what I have in store for you today. Urban…

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        « A sweet memory is still a happiness». Louis-Philippe de Ségur, Le temps, 1816.         Paris will always be Paris.   Hello, young Padawan from Paname* and elsewhere,     The ex-bobo Parisian who left Paris to go green, what a cliché. Here we are, right in there. It is not easy for me to assume, but we are deep down into it.…

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        “Legend tells that if you come across a spider on Halloween, it means an ancient spirit you loved is watching you.”. Anonymous.         Hello, young Padawan     Halloween is an old Anglo-Saxon tradition often poorly understood by other cultures that remains a mystery to many. At the time where everything would be satanic, it could be easy to make the first-degree shortcut,…

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